Interference with atomic and molecular matter waves is a rich branch of atomic physics and
quantum optics. It started with atom diffraction from crystal surfaces and the separated …

Atomic polarization phenomena impinge upon a number of areas and processes in physics.
The dielectric constant and refractive index of any gas are examples of macroscopic …

Quantum metrology is one of the most promising applications of quantum technologies. The
aim of this research field is the estimation of unknown parameters exploiting quantum …

Full article: 2018 Table of static dipole polarizabilities of the neutral elements in the periodic
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I Introduction.-1 Review of Quantum Mechanics.-1.1 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory.-
1.2 The Rabi Two-Level Problem.-1.2. 1 Light Shifts.-1.2. 2 The Dressed Atom Picture.-1.2. 3 …

Laser-cooling of atoms and atom-trapping are finding increasing application in many areas
of science. One important use of laser-cooled atoms is in atom interferometers. In these …

A trapped-atom interferometer was demonstrated using gaseous Bose-Einstein
condensates coherently split by deforming an optical single-well potential into a double-well …

Recent progress and future prospects of matter-wave interferometry with complex organic
molecules and inorganic clusters are reviewed. Three variants of a near-field interference …

Particle-wave duality enables the construction of interferometers for matter waves, which
complement optical interferometers in precision measurement devices. This requires the …

One of the most profound revolutions brought about by quantum mechanics is that it does
away with the distinction between waves and particles: atoms, in particular, can exhibit all …